Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [been] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was never really happy about the explanation but I had no proof of my own misgivings about it and anyway I would n't have known where to start looking even if I 'd been convinced then that she was alive . ’ |
| 2 | When he did n't come , I told myself I 'd been foolish even to hope . |
| 3 | I 'd been yo-yoing up and down a rollercoaster for the best part of an hour and I was still hung over from the phial of ‘ Renshenfengwangjiang ’ — a potent blend of panax ginseng and royal bee jelly — that Michael Willis had persuaded me to drink for breakfast . |
| 4 | And I had been dumb so long ! |
| 5 | I had been far away at the time , and knew nothing about any murder . |
| 6 | I had been stupid not to trust him , I had behaved badly , disregarded and neglected him . |
| 7 | I replied I had not , since I had been lucky enough so far not to have been forced to fight for my survival . |
| 8 | He found it extraordinary that I had been able simply to get into a car in Britain and drive unhindered to Roztoky . |
| 9 | The Factory had n't been specific ( it rarely is ) , but I had the feeling that whatever it was warning me about was important , and I also suspected it would be bad , but I had been wise enough to take the hint and check my Poles , and now I knew my aim was still good ; things were still with me . |
| 10 | He had taken the name Adrian IV and had ruled the church in the twelfth century , a fact that very few people other than myself knew , but a fact I had been foolish enough to tell McIllvanney whose hatred of ‘ taigs ’ , Catholics , ensured he would never forget my papal connection . |
| 11 | In the present she mostly enjoyed herself , or had so far : ‘ I 've been sad so often yet from day to day I 've enjoyed everything that was going . ’ |
| 12 | I 've been depressed before , at not having a job I suppose . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been asleep almost an hour . |
| 14 | Yeah , I have been cos I 've been bored really so all I do is study . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been fortunate enough to work with the likes of Joe Mercer and Jack Charlton and I know my place in a football club . |
| 16 | Er , I 've been fortunate enough to share in some of that work with you and I know how much work 's been involved . |
| 17 | ‘ Leonora , does the fact that I 've been married before put you off the thought of becoming my wife ? ’ |
| 18 | I 've been single again for eight long years . ’ |
| 19 | But I 've been stuck here for ages . |
| 20 | I 've been stuck up in this place |
| 21 | I 've been stuck up in this part |
| 22 | then he comes home , that 's what he likes to do potter around the house , well I do n't want to potter around the house when I 've been stuck in for twelve months . |
| 23 | Yes I I 've been busy today . |
| 24 | I 've been worried out of my head for so long it was a tremendous relief to me just to be able to talk to someone . |
| 25 | The old tricks should be left alone , because the reality of it is that when I go on tour in a couple of months , I 'm going to be playing all these songs and I 've been careful never to repeat past compositional techniques . |
| 26 | When climbing on rough rock I reverse the jacket to protect the Pertex layer from tearing ; although I 've been surprised just how robust the garment is , given a total weight of just 600g . |
| 27 | Over the years I 've been lucky enough to see pine martens , golden eagles , otters , blue hares , foxes and a huge variety of birds , including a snowy egret at Torridon , wildly off course from its African and European haunts . |
| 28 | I 've been lucky enough to play with several international captains — Colin Deans , Gary Callander , Finlay Calder and David Sole — and they have all been splendid leaders , different in their own ways but earning the respect of their colleagues . |
| 29 | In this imaginary scenario , I 've been lucky enough to get a mailing list of some of the country 's top plastic surgeons . |
| 30 | I 've been lucky enough to get two lots through , but with the third lot I did n't succeed . |